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I believe all nurses are made through knowledge and experience, but people are born with the personality to care, love, and nurture. Those are many of the qualities a nurse carries and it takes someone special to become a nurse. A nurse is someone wh...

I was fortunate to have been oriented to the world of nursing by wonderful team players. They considered the work to be everyone's work. They were highly organized nurses who put the patient's needs first. If there was work to be done, it didn't matt...

There are days when nothing seems to go right. Every teacher is mad because I won't send a kid home that, in their "medical" opinion, needs not to be in their class. Every parent is mad because I am asking for a doctor's note to re-admit their child ...

It's one of the most satisfying activities that my job entails. Last night, I noticed that an A-Fibber had refused Coumadin. That's bad, because A-Fibbers are at very high risk for stroke and MI, so anticoagulation is crucial to their therapy. I stop...